Below is a sampling of current and past OMI projects:

Subsonic Wind Tunnel

Engineering Testing

• Provided access to an OSU subsonic wind tunnel for drag measurements on golf club heads to optimize club designs.
• Provided access to tensile testing equipment and fixtures to test new products.

Engineering Consultation

• Provided a welding engineering faculty expert to a manufacturer to consult on best practices for welding operations.
• Proposed new exterior design for current product to improve aesthetics and drive market demand for product.
• Created material specification for new material to ensure quality standards are met.

Manufacturing / Operations

• Evaluated and recommended best welding operation for beverage container manufacturing process to meet manufacturing output targets and reduce cost.
• Performed computational fluid flow and heat transfer analysis of manufacturing operation to improve efficiency and reduce heat loss.
• Provided faculty expert to perform part failure analysis and recommend new manufacturing operation(s) for failure avoidance.